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for nic t(» sa\" aiuthiiiiL;- to you. The price of apples lias not 

 a(l\ance(l as much as the operators tliouj^iit last Septenil)er it 

 would and it is a (piestion with them now if they are .^'oing- to 

 come out e\en. We ha\e had some Colorado ajjples put in 

 storage and they have come out as perfect as they went in, 

 l)right and hard and hrm, not a decayed apple in them. We 

 ha\e many I'aldwins and, in fact, a supply of all the old varie- 

 ties, (ireening-s this year have met with more disfavor than 

 anv ^•ear I can remember. The trade all want a colored apple 

 for eating and cix^king. The same state of afTairs exists in 

 Chicago. In the Boston hotels they ask for large appdes; in 

 New ^^>rk they call for smaller ones, and it is dit'hcult to get 

 rid of large apples in the New York markets. 



Mv advice to the farmers is. keep 3^our boys home on the 

 farm. And I say to the boys, stay at home on the farm. 



Mi-i. Etiielbert Bliss of Massachusetts: I think if more 

 of us farmers would take advantage of our opportunities we 

 woulil not to be obliged to go' West to succeed in fruit growing. 

 Most of us who live in hilly towns have some land we don't 

 consider worth very much, practically worthless. If that land 

 could be cleared and set out to peach trees it would produce 

 large results. We also have the advantage of good markets 

 and near at hand here in Connecticut. A neighbor of mine 

 came from the citv and l)ought a farm — he knew nothing about 

 farming and has l)een making e.xperiments. A few years ago 

 he cleared a little land and put out a few peach trees, some- 

 where l)et\\een 550 and 600 trees; the fir.st crop he got from 

 tho.se trees was 1.100 ba.skets, bringing him $(S00. This last 

 season from that same plot of ground he took in $2,(S00. He 

 has 250 Elbertas and from those trees he ])icked 1.500 ba.skets 

 of fruit. I tell this to show some what can be done when effort 

 is a])i)lied in the right direction. 



Mr. J. R. Cornell. Poughkeepsie. President New York 

 State Fruit Growers' Association : The West has its troubles 

 as well as vou have here, and 1 think we have a few of our own 

 in New York. We grow a few apples in the Hudson River 

 vallev : perhaps we can't erpial the Oregon apples, but our fruit 

 sells prctt}- well in the markets and it is a fairly profitable 

 proposition with us and we don't ju.st feel like giving up the 



